BrownfieldAgNews reports:
Legal teams representing the U.S. and Mexico are meeting in Mexico City Wednesday and Thursday to continue the next phase of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement dispute on genetically modified corn.
In the hearing, panelists will hear arguments from both sides before reaching a preliminary agreement this fall and Ted McKinney with the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture or NASDA tells Brownfield he’s optimistic for the outcome.
“I so hope the logic, the obviousness of Mexico’s straying or disregarding that policy comes out and we win. If that’s the case, we hope then the new president of Mexico will say I’ll let it ride, go.”
McKinney says it’s unclear how Mexico’s new president Sheinbaum Pardo will approach the issue when she takes office in October.
“She is science-based and she isn’t President Amlo though she is of his party, he’s endorsed her. All we can do is keep our fingers crossed that science will prevail.”
As part of its defense, Mexico is also expected to raise concerns about glyphosate.
Brownfield interviewed McKinney at the Midwest Association of State Departments of Agriculture regional meeting this week in St. Louis.
